St. Petersburg Web Design Blog

This free WordPress theme is also available in plain HTML version as well.

Are you wanting your blog’s visitors to wistfully think of mellow days in laid back Florida?  Well then this free WordPress theme is for you!  This free web site template also comes in a plain HTML version as well.

Inspired but a laid back moment in a  Florida field on a warm sunny Florida winter day, both the WordPress and HTML theme are fully valid CSS and HTML which will render exactly the same in:

• Internet Explorer versions 5-9
• Firefox (all versions)
• Safari
• Opera

Of course we’re happy to provide customization to the design of this template for your web site.  We also can provide recovery from attacks, and other WordPress Press services.

As you can see by the screen shot, this theme is already in use on one of our sister web sites, the Florida Fishing Blog.

Look for download links, licensing info and support after the fold:

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One of our web sites,  the Florida Fishing Blog,  has made it to #1 on Google for the key phrase “Florida Fishing Blog“.  Not a lot of people search for this term but it is the targeted niche key phrase for this web site and not much effort has been placed into the search engine marketing for this website either. This target was chosen as part of a grander plan campaign focus on Florida Fishing and even grander, Florida.

Obviously the Florida Fishing Blog is related to the phrase  Florida fishing and thus related to the search term Florida.  Now when ever I need another related link to a clients web site that is in some way related to Florida (almost all of them are).  It’s nice to have an ever expanding stable of web sites that are all related to a phrase and or word that are ready to be used at any moment.

Another search engine success!

Several times when our sales reps go on a sales call, they’ve been heard a “no phrase” that they just can’t beat:

We just want a simple web site with no bells and whistles for cheap, really cheap.

Cheap Web Design starts with no bells and whistles. By focusing on only the aspects of a web site that are the most important to the success of a web site, you can save a ton of money!

Since the economy has turned south we’ve heard this numerous times.  The search engine data reflects this trend.  Google says people are searching for the phrase “Cheap Web Design” more than 100 times as much as “inexpensive web design” and over 1000 times as much as “quality web design”.  It’s pretty clear that for a lot of small business, price is the #1 concern when it comes to building their web presence.

There’s no way we’re getting out of the full service web design business, we just love it too much.  But the market is speaking pretty clearly.  We’ve always had quite reasonable prices and gave amazing service, but there’s a lot of small business owners out there with no web site at all or one of those really bad, “make your own web site for free” (which aren’t actually free, just cheap).  We knew we could give the small business community of America a better choice.  So after careful thought, we’ve come up with a new branch of services that offers high quality web sites for cheap! We call it, appropriately: Cheap Web Design

Learn more:

• How can we do web design so cheaply?
  • Basically, we focus on providing only the features of a web site that are the most important to the success of a web site.
  • The above page also tells you about the few things one gives up with a cheap web design package?
• A big part of why we can do web design so cheaply is our streamlined cheap web design process.
• We still use our 2 proof process to ensure high quality web sites . . .

Create a Post in WordPress Video

WordPress, a web application that supports not just reverse chronological order articles, hierarchical pages, a WYSIWYG content editor with a working image/file uploader and embedder and tons of other features, sounds a little intimidating at first.  But the beauty of WordPress is that it’s easy to use.

Yes WordPress is powerful, secure, has tons of plug-ins and a huge user community.  But it also has it’s basics down.  If you are a basic level user it just doesn’t get much easier than this to work.  Other Content Management Systems (CMS) like Drupal, PhpNuke, Joomla will have even the fastest of learners pulling their hair out within a manner of days.  Don’t worry, it’s not you, it’s them.  WordPress is so widely customizable that it can do just about any job that they can.  But without the heartache that the others cause.

XML Site maps are 5 years old and we are still amazed as people who are using their site maps effectively. As the lady in the video below also points out, often times a poor sitemap.xml is an indicator of a poor web site plan. ie, sometimes more content isn’t better.
She also touches on a great point, using other forms of XML, namely RSS feeds can be a link building machine for a web site. Others sites that are focused on providing users the latest from the blogging world, or even better are focused on providing the latest info from the specific niche you are in, will provide summaries and links to your articles and pages. This not only builds links but it also can generated a little targeted traffic occasionally.

This will be a two part series, next week will tell you about an instance where you may NOT want to have a “properly” implemented sitemap…

We’re proud to launch our in house made client info and proofing system. Behind a password protected front end we’ve created a custom section for each client with client news just for them, a summary of their account status, proofs of their latest web designs, if any are available and a simple feed back form for approval and feedback on these proofs.
Like we said it’s pass word protected so if you are awaiting a proof we’ll be contacting you soon (if we haven’t already) with your user name and password to the client info center.